The 2020 US Open was the 140th edition of
tennis
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's
US Open and the second
Grand Slam event of the year. It was held on outdoor
hard court
A hardcourt (or hard court) is a surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts. It is typically made of rigid materials such as asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resins to seal the surface an ...
s at the
USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center
The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center is a stadium complex within Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, United States. It has been the home of the US Open Grand Slam tennis tournament, played every year in August ...
in
Queens, New York
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The tournament was an event run by the
International Tennis Federation
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis. It was founded in 1913 as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by twelve national tennis associations. As of 2016, there ...
(ITF) and was part of the calendars for the
2020 ATP Tour and the
2020 WTA Tour, the top professional men's and women's tennis circuits, respectively.
Held during the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identi ...
, the tournament saw changes in format and personnel compared to previous editions. As a result, withdrawals and opt-outs became a theme of the competition. Defending men's singles champion and world No. 2
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal Parera (, ; born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He is currently ranked world No. 2 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He has been ranked world No. 1 for 209 weeks, and has finish ...
and No. 9
Gaël Monfils
Gaël Sébastien Monfils (; born 1 September 1986) is a French professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 6 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in November 2016. His career hig ...
withdrew due to COVID-19 safety concerns, while No. 4
Roger Federer
Roger Federer (; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 310 weeks, including a record 237 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-e ...
, No. 12
Fabio Fognini
Fabio Fognini (; born 24 May 1987) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ranking of world No. 9 achieved on 15 July 2019. He is currently ranked (July 2022) in 64th place by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP ...
, and No. 15
Stan Wawrinka
Stanislas "Stan" Wawrinka (; born 28 March 1985) is a Swiss professional tennis player. He reached a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking of world No. 3 for the first time on 27 January 2014. His career highligh ...
opted out for other reasons. On the women's side, defending singles champion and world No. 6
Bianca Andreescu did not return due to safety concerns, nor did No. 1
Ashleigh Barty
Ashleigh is the feminine form of the Old English name Ashley, which means "dweller near the ash tree forest". It is most common in the United States and United Kingdom.
Notable people
B
*Ashleigh Ball (born 1983), Canadian voice actress
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, No. 2
Simona Halep, or No. 5
Elina Svitolina, among others. Further, the qualifying rounds of the tournament, in addition to the mixed doubles and juniors draws, were not held due to the pandemic.
Men's singles world No. 1
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic ( sr-Cyrl, Новак Ђоковић, translit=Novak Đoković, ; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 1 for a record total 373 weeks, and has finished as the year-end No. ...
made headlines by becoming the first top-seeded player to be disqualified from a Grand Slam singles tournament when he was
defaulted from his fourth-round match for hitting a ball out of frustration that inadvertently hit a line judge in the throat. Although accidental, Djokovic's actions were deemed to be in violation of a Grand Slam rule regarding ball abuse, and he was disqualified from the tournament.
Dominic Thiem won the men's singles title for his first Grand Slam title. He became the first new Grand Slam men's singles champion since
2014
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with his five-set defeat of first-time Grand Slam finalist
Alexander Zverev
Alexander "Sascha" Zverev (; born 20 April 1997) is a German professional tennis player. He has been ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) as high as world No. 2, and was continuously ranked in the top 10 from July 2017 to N ...
. The women's singles competition was won by
Naomi Osaka
is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and is the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles. Osaka is a four-time Grand Slam singles champ ...
, who defeated
Victoria Azarenka
Victória Fyódarauna Azárenka ( be, Вікторыя Фёдараўна Азаранка; Russian: Виктория Фёдоровна Азаренко; born 31 July 1989) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Azarenka is a former w ...
in three sets to capture her second US Open title and third Grand Slam title overall. Osaka arrived to the final wearing a black
face mask bearing the name of
Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African-American boy shot to death in
Cleveland
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in November 2014. The tournament took place during the
George Floyd protests
The George Floyd protests were a series of protests and civil unrest against police brutality and racism that began in Minneapolis on May 26, 2020, and largely took place during 2020. The civil unrest and protests began as part of internat ...
, and Osaka wore similar masks for each of her other six matches, each with a different name of a Black American who died as a result of unjust violence from police or other citizens in the United States.
Tournament
The 2020 US Open was the 140th edition of the tournament and took place at the
USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center
The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center is a stadium complex within Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, United States. It has been the home of the US Open Grand Slam tennis tournament, played every year in August ...
in
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, often referred to as Flushing Meadows Park, or simply Flushing Meadows, is a public park in the northern part of Queens, New York City. It is bounded by I-678 (Van Wyck Expressway) on the east, Grand Central Pa ...
of
Queens
Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...
in New York City, United States, where it has been held since 1978. The tournament was held on 17
Laykold hard courts for the first time.
The tournament consisted of the men's and women's singles and doubles draws, men's and women's wheelchair singles and doubles draws and a wheelchair quad singles and doubles draw. Both doubles draws were cut to 32 pairs instead of the standard 64. Due COVID protocol decisions made by the
New York state government, the USTA and US Open cancelled the draws for qualifying matches, mixed doubles, and junior matches, a decision that was sharply criticized by lower-ranked players, bringing accusations of the tournament "catering to the top". The wheelchair events were initially not scheduled to be held, due to a change that would have removed them from the event every four years due to a conflict with the
Summer Paralympic Games
The Summer Paralympics also known as the Games of the Paralympiad, are an international multi-sport event where athletes with physical disabilities compete. This includes athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and cerebra ...
, but the events were reinstated following the postponement of the
2020 Summer Paralympics
The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paraly ...
to 2021 and criticism from several wheelchair players, notably
Dylan Alcott
Dylan Martin Alcott, (born 4 December 1990) is an Australian former wheelchair tennis player, former wheelchair basketball player, radio host and motivational speaker. Alcott was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball t ...
.
The tournament used two of the three main show courts at the National Tennis Center –
Arthur Ashe Stadium
Arthur Ashe Stadium is a tennis stadium at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City. Part of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, it is the main stadium of the US Open tennis tournament and has a capacity of 23,771, ...
and
Louis Armstrong Stadium. Five of the complex's 18 total courts, including
Grandstand
A grandstand is a normally permanent structure for seating spectators. This includes both auto racing and horse racing. The grandstand is in essence like a single section of a stadium, but differs from a stadium in that it does not wrap al ...
, the main stadium of the
2020 Western & Southern Open
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, which was held in New York City instead of its usual
Cincinnati
Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line w ...
venue, were not used for the tournament due to the lack of players.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
The US Open is normally the final
major tournament of the year, scheduled during August and September. It was instead the second major of the year due to the cancellation of
Wimbledon and the rescheduling of the
French Open
The French Open (french: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament and ve ...
to late September. In June 2020, it was announced that the event would take place
without spectators for the first time in the tournament's history, and the first time in all the Grand Slam tournaments' 143-year history, due to concerns relating to the ongoing
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identi ...
. Players would not be required to
quarantine
A quarantine is a restriction on the movement of people, animals and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests. It is often used in connection to disease and illness, preventing the movement of those who may have been ...
upon arrival, but were subject to regular
COVID-19 testing
COVID-19 testing involves analyzing samples to assess the current or past presence of SARS-CoV-2. The two main types of tests detect either the presence of the virus or antibodies produced in response to infection. Molecular tests for viral p ...
, both prior to arrival and throughout the tournament, and all players and personnel were required to wear a
face mask upon entering the grounds except while practicing, training, and working out.
To reduce staff,
electronic line judge
An electronic line judge is a device used in tennis to automatically detect where a ball has landed on the court. Attempts to revolutionize tennis officiating and the judging of calls in the sport began in the early 1970s and has resulted in the d ...
s were used on most matches, excluding those held on the two main show courts.
In the event a player was deemed a close contact of someone who had tested positive, the
United States Tennis Association
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the national governing body for tennis in the United States. A not-for-profit organization with more than 700,000 members, it invests 100% of its proceeds to promote and develop the growth of tennis, ...
(USTA) and New York City health officials initially stated that the player could continue play, but would be subject to "enhanced" health protocol, including daily testing and restricted access to facilities. On September 5, the USTA announced that health officials in
Nassau County, where most players were residing in hotels, had issued 14-day quarantine orders "for all individuals who had prolonged close contact to a person who previously tested positive", thus impacting their ability to continue competing in the tournament.
The effects of the virus were seen both before and during the tournament. COVID-19 precautions necessitated the cancellation of the qualification matches and the
ATP and
WTA rankings
The WTA rankings are the ratings defined by the Women's Tennis Association, introduced in November 1975.
Iga Świątek is the current world No. 1.
Ranking method
The WTA rankings are based on a rolling 52-week, cumulative system. A pla ...
were the sole metric used to determine entry into the tournament aside from wild cards. Each singles field contained 120 players who gained entry via their ranking and eight wild card entries. This differed from previous years where 16 players in both men's and women's singles entered their draws through qualifying.
Many players cited safety concerns due to the pandemic as reason to withdraw from the tournament prior to its start, including men's players
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal Parera (, ; born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He is currently ranked world No. 2 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He has been ranked world No. 1 for 209 weeks, and has finish ...
,
Gaël Monfils
Gaël Sébastien Monfils (; born 1 September 1986) is a French professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 6 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in November 2016. His career hig ...
,
Stan Wawrinka
Stanislas "Stan" Wawrinka (; born 28 March 1985) is a Swiss professional tennis player. He reached a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking of world No. 3 for the first time on 27 January 2014. His career highligh ...
,
Alexei Popyrin,
Nick Kyrgios
Nicholas Hilmy Kyrgios ( ; born 27 April 1995) is an Australian professional tennis player. In singles, Kyrgios' career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 13 was achieved on 24 October 2016. He has won sev ...
, and
Kei Nishikori, and women's players
Bianca Andreescu,
Simona Halep,
Ashleigh Barty
Ashleigh is the feminine form of the Old English name Ashley, which means "dweller near the ash tree forest". It is most common in the United States and United Kingdom.
Notable people
B
*Ashleigh Ball (born 1983), Canadian voice actress
* Ashle ...
,
Elina Svitolina,
Kiki Bertens
Kiki Bertens (; born 10 December 1991) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking was world No. 4, which she reached on 13 May 2019, becoming the highest ranked Dutch female player ever.
Her career-high do ...
,
Belinda Bencic,
Wang Qiang, and
Barbora Strýcová
Barbora Strýcová (; born 28 March 1986), formerly known as Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová, is a Czech former professional tennis player who was ranked world No. 1 in doubles.
She won her first Grand Slam title at the 2019 Wimbledon Champion ...
, among others.
All in all, the women's singles competition was hit the hardest, as 24 of the top 100 ranked players were absent from the competition. In addition,
Benoît Paire
Benoît Paire (; born 8 May 1989) is a French professional tennis player.
His best result in a Grand Slam has been reaching the fourth round, which he has achieved on four occasions. He has won three singles titles, at the 2015 Swedish Open, ...
was forced to drop out of the tournament due to a positive COVID-19 test.
This test also led to the forced withdrawal of the top-seeded women's doubles duo of
Tímea Babos
Tímea Babos (; born 10 May 1993) is a Hungarian professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles.
She is a four-time Grand Slam champion in women's doubles, having won the 2018 and 2020 Australian Opens, as well as the Fre ...
and
Kristina Mladenovic
Kristina "Kiki" Mladenovic (; sr, Кристина "Кики" Младеновић, Kristina "Kiki" Mladenović, ; born 14 May 1993) is a French professional tennis player and a former world No. 1 in doubles.
She is a nine-time Grand Slam c ...
prior to their second round match due to potential exposure to Paire.
Additionally, the men's singles third round match between
Alexander Zverev
Alexander "Sascha" Zverev (; born 20 April 1997) is a German professional tennis player. He has been ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) as high as world No. 2, and was continuously ranked in the top 10 from July 2017 to N ...
and
Adrian Mannarino
Adrian Mannarino (born 29 June 1988) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 22, attained on 19 March 2018. He won his first ATP Tour singles title at the 2019 Rosmalen Open on grass. He is ...
was delayed for three hours due to a "collaborative dialogue with health officials", as a tournament statement phrased it, to determine whether Mannarino could play in the match after his exposure to Paire.
Players
The men's singles competition featured seven players ranked in the top 10 in the ATP rankings at the time of the tournament.
World No. 1
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic ( sr-Cyrl, Новак Ђоковић, translit=Novak Đoković, ; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 1 for a record total 373 weeks, and has finished as the year-end No. ...
received the top seed, followed by
Dominic Thiem,
Daniil Medvedev, and
Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Djokovic was the clear odds-on betting favorite entering the competition, followed by the other top four seeds.
Three previous US Open champions, as well as two previous finalists, were included in the field: Djokovic, a three-time champion; one-time champions
Andy Murray
Sir Andrew Barron Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a British professional tennis player from Scotland. He was ranked world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 41 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 in 2016. Murray ...
and
Marin Čilić; and one-time finalists
Kevin Anderson, entering as a replacement for
Nick Kyrgios
Nicholas Hilmy Kyrgios ( ; born 27 April 1995) is an Australian professional tennis player. In singles, Kyrgios' career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 13 was achieved on 24 October 2016. He has won sev ...
, and
Daniil Medvedev. Several notable players were missing for non-COVID-19 issues. No. 4 ranked and five-time champion
Roger Federer
Roger Federer (; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 310 weeks, including a record 237 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-e ...
was injured, while No. 12
Fabio Fognini
Fabio Fognini (; born 24 May 1987) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ranking of world No. 9 achieved on 15 July 2019. He is currently ranked (July 2022) in 64th place by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP ...
and No. 15
Stan Wawrinka
Stanislas "Stan" Wawrinka (; born 28 March 1985) is a Swiss professional tennis player. He reached a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking of world No. 3 for the first time on 27 January 2014. His career highligh ...
opted out to prepare for the upcoming clay court season.
Eight players, all from the United States, entered the draw as
wild cards, and three players with a
protected ranking
This page is a glossary of tennis terminology.
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* Ace: Serve where the tennis ball lands inside the '' service box'' and is not touched by the receiver; thus, a shot that is both a serve and a winner is an ace. Aces are usually powerful and g ...
, including American player
Jack Sock, who replaced Federer.
The women's singles tournament was far more affected by withdrawals than the men's singles; of the players ranked in the top ten, only four competed.
The top seed in the draw went to world No. 3
Karolína Plíšková, followed by
Sofia Kenin,
Serena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American inactive professional tennis player. Considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) fo ...
, and
Naomi Osaka
is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and is the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles. Osaka is a four-time Grand Slam singles champ ...
. Despite being seeded third and fourth, Williams and Osaka entered the tournament as odds-on favorites, having been given equal betting odds to win the title, followed by Plíšková and Kenin.
Included in the draw were five previous US Open champions: six-time champion Serena Williams, two-time champion
Venus Williams
Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980) is an American professional tennis player. A former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles, Williams has won seven Grand Slam singles titles, five at Wimbledon and two at the US Open. She is ...
, three-time champion
Kim Clijsters, who entered as a wild card, and one-time champions
Angelique Kerber and
Sloane Stephens
Sloane Stephens (born March 20, 1993) is an American professional tennis player. She achieved a career-best ranking of world No. 3 after Wimbledon in 2018. Stephens was the 2017 US Open champion, and has won seven WTA Tour singles titles in to ...
.
Three previous finalists also competed:
Victoria Azarenka
Victória Fyódarauna Azárenka ( be, Вікторыя Фёдараўна Азаранка; Russian: Виктория Фёдоровна Азаренко; born 31 July 1989) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Azarenka is a former w ...
, Karolína Plíšková, and
Madison Keys.
Previous champions
Svetlana Kuznetsova and
Samantha Stosur
Samantha Jane Stosur ( ; born 30 March 1984) is an Australian professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in doubles, a ranking which she first achieved on 6 February 2006 and held for 61 consecutive weeks. Also a former top ten s ...
were scheduled to compete in the event, but withdrew prior to the competition.
Eight players, consisting of Clijsters and seven American players, gained entry to the tournament as wild cards, while five were entered with a protected ranking and an additional two competed as alternates.
Doubles draws were topped by
Juan Sebastián Cabal and
Robert Farah on the men's side, and
Tímea Babos
Tímea Babos (; born 10 May 1993) is a Hungarian professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles.
She is a four-time Grand Slam champion in women's doubles, having won the 2018 and 2020 Australian Opens, as well as the Fre ...
and
Kristina Mladenovic
Kristina "Kiki" Mladenovic (; sr, Кристина "Кики" Младеновић, Kristina "Kiki" Mladenović, ; born 14 May 1993) is a French professional tennis player and a former world No. 1 in doubles.
She is a nine-time Grand Slam c ...
on the women's side.
Each draw contained 32 pairs, with four wild card entries.
Singles players
;
Men's singles
;
Women's singles
Events
Men's singles
*
Dominic Thiem def.
Alexander Zverev
Alexander "Sascha" Zverev (; born 20 April 1997) is a German professional tennis player. He has been ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) as high as world No. 2, and was continuously ranked in the top 10 from July 2017 to N ...
, 2–6, 4–6, 6–4, 6–3, 7–6
(8–6)
The men's singles tournament began on August 31, with
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic ( sr-Cyrl, Новак Ђоковић, translit=Novak Đoković, ; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 1 for a record total 373 weeks, and has finished as the year-end No. ...
holding the top seed
and top players
Roger Federer
Roger Federer (; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 310 weeks, including a record 237 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-e ...
and
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal Parera (, ; born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He is currently ranked world No. 2 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He has been ranked world No. 1 for 209 weeks, and has finish ...
opting out.
Ten seeded players suffered defeats in the first two rounds, including 9th seed
Diego Schwartzman
Diego Sebastián Schwartzman (, ; born 16 August 1992) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has won four ATP singles titles and reached his career-high singles ranking of world 8 in October 2020. As a clay court specialist, his bes ...
, who lost in the first round to
Cameron Norrie. The third round eliminated a further eight seeded players, most notably 4-seed
Stefanos Tsitsipas, who fell in a fifth-set
tiebreak to
Borna Ćorić, and 11-seed
Karen Khachanov, who lost to
Alex de Minaur despite the latter's second-set
bagel
A bagel ( yi, בײגל, translit=beygl; pl, bajgiel; also spelled beigel) is a bread roll originating in the Jewish communities of Poland. It is traditionally shaped by hand into a roughly hand-sized ring from yeasted wheat dough that is fi ...
and subsequent third-set code violation for racket abuse.
Much of the action in the tournament's fourth round was overshadowed by controversy surrounding top seed Novak Djokovic's match against 20th seed
Pablo Carreño Busta
Pablo Carreño Busta (; born 12 July 1991) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 10 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved on 11 September 2017. He also reached a bes ...
. After losing a point while trailing 5–6 in the first set, Djokovic hit a ball out of frustration that hit a line judge in the throat, which violated a Grand Slam rule regarding ball abuse.
Djokovic was
defaulted from the match by the tournament referee,
marking the first time a top-seeded player had been disqualified from a Grand Slam singles tournament. This disqualification ensured that the top half of the men's singles draw would produce a first-time Grand Slam finalist, and that this tournament would be the first Grand Slam since
2004
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Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight ...
without Djokovic, Roger Federer, or Rafael Nadal participating in the semifinal round.
The quarterfinals took place on September 8–9. The top two remaining seeds, 2-seed
Dominic Thiem and 3-seed
Daniil Medvedev, both advanced in straight sets,
while 5-seed
Alexander Zverev
Alexander "Sascha" Zverev (; born 20 April 1997) is a German professional tennis player. He has been ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) as high as world No. 2, and was continuously ranked in the top 10 from July 2017 to N ...
advanced in four sets and 20-seed Pablo Carreño Busta advanced in five. Thiem took his semifinal match over Medvedev in straight sets, while Carreño Busta won the first two sets before losing the final three to Zverev; this was Zverev's first comeback win from two sets down.
This set up a final between Thiem, making his fourth Grand Slam finals appearance, and Zverev, making his first; both players were seeking their first Grand Slam title. Zverev, the underdog,
jumped out to an early advantage, taking the first and second sets. Thiem battled back in the third and fourth sets. This set up a fifth and final set, which remained close until the end and was eventually won by Thiem in a tiebreak, after four hours and one minute, making Thiem the first new Grand Slam winner in six years. This also marked the first time since
Pancho Gonzalez
Ricardo Alonso "Pancho" González (May 9, 1928 – July 3, 1995), known sometimes as Richard Gonzales, was an American tennis player. He won 15 major singles titles, including two U.S. National Singles Championships in 1948 and 1949, and 13 P ...
in
1949
Events
January
* January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022.
* January 2 – Luis ...
that a two-set deficit had been overcome in a US Open final.
Women's singles
*
Naomi Osaka
is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and is the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles. Osaka is a four-time Grand Slam singles champ ...
def.
Victoria Azarenka
Victória Fyódarauna Azárenka ( be, Вікторыя Фёдараўна Азаранка; Russian: Виктория Фёдоровна Азаренко; born 31 July 1989) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Azarenka is a former w ...
, 1–6, 6–3, 6–3
The women's singles tournament began August 31, with
Karolína Plíšková holding the top seed.
29 of the 32 seeded players in the women's singles draw advanced to the second round, the most since the US Open began seeding 32 singles players rather than 16 in
2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanist ...
.
Serena Williams
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made history in her first round match against
Kristie Ahn
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She has won seven singles titles and two doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 30 September 2019, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 87. He ...
by becoming the winningest player in US Open history, having won her 102nd match. The second round, however, saw the exit of eleven seeded players, notably 1-seed Plíšková and 5-seed
Aryna Sabalenka, who both fell in the second round in straight sets against
Caroline Garcia and
Victoria Azarenka
Victória Fyódarauna Azárenka ( be, Вікторыя Фёдараўна Азаранка; Russian: Виктория Фёдоровна Азаренко; born 31 July 1989) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Azarenka is a former w ...
, respectively.
In the third round, 7-seed
Madison Keys was forced to retire from her match against
Alizé Cornet
Alizé Cornet (; born 22 January 1990) is a French professional tennis player. Cornet has won six singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as three singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 16 February 2009, she ...
in the second set after suffering an injury, putting Cornet through to her first-ever US Open round of 16. The fourth round saw three more top-ten seeds fall, notably 2-seed
Sofia Kenin, who lost to
Elise Mertens, and 6-seed
Petra Kvitová
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, who was upset by
Shelby Rogers.
This left the third- and fourth-seeded players, Serena Williams and
Naomi Osaka
is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and is the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles. Osaka is a four-time Grand Slam singles champ ...
, as the top two players headed into the quarterfinals. Each faced an unseeded player, as Williams defeated
Tsvetana Pironkova in three sets and Osaka beat Rogers in two. The other two quarterfinals saw 28-seed
Jennifer Brady
Jennifer Elizabeth Brady (born April 12, 1995) is an inactive American professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles WTA ranking of world No. 13 on 22 February 2021, and a career-high doubles ranking of 44 on 19 August 2019. Br ...
defeat 23-seed
Yulia Putintseva, and unseeded Victoria Azarenka upset 16-seed Elise Mertens. This left Azarenka as the only unseeded player in the semifinals, where she met Serena Williams in the first semifinal in Grand Slam history to be contested by two mothers. Azarenka's three-set win put her through to her fifth Grand Slam final. She would be met in the final by Osaka, who defeated Brady in three sets to qualify for her third Grand Slam final. In the final, Azarenka got out to an early lead after taking the first set in dominant fashion. Soon after, Osaka improved her play, and her "self-described bad attitude", and won four straight games in the second set to level the match. Osaka was victorious in the final set as well, securing her second US Open title and her third Grand Slam singles title.
In each of her seven matches, Osaka entered the stadium wearing a black
face mask with the name of a different African-American who died as a result of unjust violence from police or other citizens in the United States, in support of the
Black Lives Matter
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movement and the ongoing
George Floyd protests
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.
The seven masks bore the names of
Breonna Taylor,
Elijah McClain,
Ahmaud Arbery,
Trayvon Martin,
George Floyd
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,
Philando Castile
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Castile was ...
, and
Tamir Rice.
Men's doubles
*
Mate Pavić
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He is a five-time Grand Slam champion, having won three titles in men's doubles: the 2018 Australian Open with Oliver Marach, t ...
/
Bruno Soares def.
Wesley Koolhof /
Nikola Mektić, 7–5, 6–3
Coming into the men's doubles tournament, the all-
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n team of
Juan Sebastián Cabal and
Robert Farah held the top seed. The first round saw the surprising exit of four of the eight seeded pairs, including the 2-seed pair of
Łukasz Kubot and
Marcelo Melo
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* Marcelo Costa de Andrade (born 1967), Brazilian serial killer, rapi ...
and the 4-seed pair of
Filip Polášek and
Ivan Dodig. Two more seeded pairs dropped out in the second round, as top-seeded Cabal and Farah faltered, as did the 6-seed German pair of
Kevin Krawietz
Kevin Krawietz (born 24 January 1992) is a German professional tennis player who specialises in doubles.
He is a two-time Grand Slam champion, having won the French Open doubles title in both 2019 and 2020 alongside compatriot Andreas Mies. Th ...
and
Andreas Mies
Andreas Mies (; born 21 August 1990) is a German professional tennis player who specialises in doubles.
He is a two-time Grand Slam champion, having won the French Open doubles title in both 2019 and 2020 alongside compatriot Kevin Krawietz. T ...
.
The remaining two seeded pairs met each other in the semifinals, as 8-seed
Wesley Koolhof and
Nikola Mektić defeated 3-seed
Rajeev Ram
Rajeev Ram ( ; born March 18, 1984) is an American professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles.
Ram is a five-time major champion, having won the 2020 Australian Open, the 2021 US Open, and the 2022 US Open in men's d ...
and
Joe Salisbury. The other semifinal saw
Jean-Julien Rojer and
Horia Tecău fall to
Mate Pavić
Mate Pavić (; born 4 July 1993) is a Croatian professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles.
He is a five-time Grand Slam champion, having won three titles in men's doubles: the 2018 Australian Open with Oliver Marach, t ...
and
Bruno Soares; both semifinal matches were decided in two sets. In the final, Pavić and Soares jumped out to a lead as they took the first set 7–5. Koolhoff and Mektić could not respond, and the second set ended in favor of Pavić and Soares, giving them their second and third Grand Slam doubles titles, respectively.
Women's doubles
*
Laura Siegemund /
Vera Zvonareva def.
Nicole Melichar /
Xu Yifan, 6–4, 6–4
Entering the women's doubles tournament, the top seed was awarded to
Tímea Babos
Tímea Babos (; born 10 May 1993) is a Hungarian professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles.
She is a four-time Grand Slam champion in women's doubles, having won the 2018 and 2020 Australian Opens, as well as the Fre ...
of Hungary and
Kristina Mladenovic
Kristina "Kiki" Mladenovic (; sr, Кристина "Кики" Младеновић, Kristina "Kiki" Mladenović, ; born 14 May 1993) is a French professional tennis player and a former world No. 1 in doubles.
She is a nine-time Grand Slam c ...
of France. While the first round saw the exit of only one of the eight seeded pairs in the tournament (the fifth-seeded pair of
Bethanie Mattek-Sands
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and
Zhang Shuai were defeated by
Asia Muhammad and
Taylor Townsend
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), the second round saw four such occurrences. The bottom three seeded pairs – 6-seed
Shuko Aoyama and
Ena Shibahara
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She won her first Grand Slam title at the 2022 French Open alongside Wesley Koolhof in mixed doubles, and also reached the women's doubles semifinals at the ...
, 7-seed
Victoria Azarenka
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and
Sofia Kenin, and 8-seed
Anna-Lena Friedsam
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She has won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one WTA 125 singles title as well as 12 singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit in her career. She played also ...
and
Kateřina Siniaková – were all defeated, and the top-seeded pair of Babos and Mladenovic were disqualified as a result of
Benoît Paire
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His best result in a Grand Slam has been reaching the fourth round, which he has achieved on four occasions. He has won three singles titles, at the 2015 Swedish Open, ...
's positive
COVID-19
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test, which required Mladenovic, who had reportedly had close contact with Paire, to
quarantine
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and therefore drop out of the tournament. Their match was awarded on a
walkover
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to
Gabriela Dabrowski and
Alison Riske, and Babos would later refer to the decision as an "injustice", citing the numerous negative COVID-19 tests taken by both of the pair and the clearing of a male athlete in a similar situation the day before.
The tournament progressed to the quarterfinals, where the 2-seed pair of
Elise Mertens and
Aryna Sabalenka and the 4-seed pair of
Květa Peschke and
Demi Schuurs
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She has won 15 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one singles title and 20 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. In February 2015, she ...
were both defeated.
In the semifinals, Asia Muhammad and Taylor Townsend were defeated by the 3-seed pair of
Nicole Melichar and
Xu Yifan. The other semifinal saw
Anna Blinkova and
Veronika Kudermetova fall to
Laura Siegemund and
Vera Zvonareva; both semifinals were decided in three sets. This set up a final between the pair of Melichar and Xu and the pair of Siegemund and Zvonareva; the latter team took the final in two sets to win the title.
This marked the first Grand Slam women's doubles title for Siegemund and the third for Zvonareva.
Wheelchair men's singles
*
Shingo Kunieda
is a Japanese wheelchair tennis player. He is the current world No. 1 in singles. With four Paralympic gold medals, 28 major singles titles – an all-time record in singles of any tennis discipline – and 50 major titles overall, Kunieda i ...
def.
Alfie Hewett
Alfie Hewett (born 6 December 1997) is a British wheelchair tennis player. He is the current world No. 1 in doubles, and a former world No. 1 in singles.
Hewett is a 21-time major
Major ( commandant in certain jurisdictions) is a mili ...
, 6–3, 3–6, 7–6
(7–3)
The wheelchair men's singles tournament had two seeded players, 1-seed
Shingo Kunieda
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and 2-seed
Gustavo Fernández, and six other unseeded players. In the tournament's opening round, the quarterfinals, Kunieda defeated
Nicolas Peifer
Nicolas Peifer (born 13 October 1990, in Strasbourg) is a French wheelchair tennis player. In doubles, Peifer has completed the career Super Slam, having won all four majors, a Paralympic gold medal in 2016, and the Wheelchair Tennis Masters o ...
,
and Fernández defeated
Stéphane Houdet
Stéphane Houdet (born 20 November 1970) is a French wheelchair tennis player. Houdet is a former singles world number one, and the current doubles world number one. In 2014, he became the first man in history to complete the calendar-year Gran ...
, both in two sets. The quarterfinals also saw Casey Ratzlaff fall in three sets to
Joachim Gérard
Joachim Gérard (born 15 October 1988) is a Belgian wheelchair tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 1 in singles.
Gérard has won two Grand Slam singles titles (2021 Australian Open, 2021 Wimbledon Championships) and four doubles title ...
, and
Alfie Hewett
Alfie Hewett (born 6 December 1997) is a British wheelchair tennis player. He is the current world No. 1 in doubles, and a former world No. 1 in singles.
Hewett is a 21-time major
Major ( commandant in certain jurisdictions) is a mili ...
defeat
Gordon Reid in two.
In the semifinals, Kunieda faced Gérard, and bounced back from a first set loss to win in three, while Hewett upset Fernández in three after splitting the first two sets. This set up a final between top-seeded Shingo Kunieda and unseeded Alfie Hewett; the former in his 29th Grand Slam singles final and the latter in his fifth. The match came down to the wire, with each player taking one of the first two sets by a score of 6–3. The third set reached 6–6 and went to a tiebreak, where Kunieda was victorious to win his 24th Grand Slam singles title.
Wheelchair women's singles
*
Diede de Groot def.
Yui Kamiji, 6–3, 6–3
The wheelchair women's singles tournament, like the men's competition, was contested by eight players. Two were seeded, 1-seed
Diede de Groot and 2-seed
Yui Kamiji, while the six others were unseeded. The tournament opened with de Groot defeating
Jordanne Whiley and Kamiji defeating
Momoko Ohtani
is a Japanese wheelchair tennis player. Ohtani has been active in international competitions since 2016.
Medical history
Ohtani was born healthy. She has been playing tennis since the third grade of primary school. After completing secondary ...
, both in straight sets.
The other two quarterfinals saw
Marjolein Buis eliminate Dana Mathewson in two sets and Angélica Bernal defeat wild card entry
Lucy Shuker
Lucy Shuker (born 28 May 1980) is a British wheelchair tennis player who is currently the highest ranked woman in the sport in Britain. A previous singles & doubles National Champion, Lucy has represented Great Britain at three successive Paral ...
in three. In the semifinals, both top seeds advanced, with de Groot defeating Buis in three sets and Kamiji beating Bernal in two. This set up a final between the top two seeds, de Groot and Kamiji. The top seeded player, de Groot, did not give Kamiji much of an opportunity for the upset, taking both sets 6–3 and winning her third US Open title.
Wheelchair quad singles
*
Sam Schröder
Sam Schröder (born 25 September 1999) is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player.
Schröder has a career high Quad Wheelchair singles ranking of 1, achieved on 14 February 2022. He also has a career high Quad Wheelchair doubles ranking of 1, achieve ...
def.
Dylan Alcott
Dylan Martin Alcott, (born 4 December 1990) is an Australian former wheelchair tennis player, former wheelchair basketball player, radio host and motivational speaker. Alcott was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball t ...
, 7–6
(7–5), 0–6, 6–4
The wheelchair quad singles competition was not played as a traditional tournament bracket; rather, it was played in a
round robin-style tournament with the top two finishers moving on to the championship match. Four players took part in the tournament: 1-seed
Dylan Alcott
Dylan Martin Alcott, (born 4 December 1990) is an Australian former wheelchair tennis player, former wheelchair basketball player, radio host and motivational speaker. Alcott was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball t ...
, 2-seed
Andy Lapthorne, unseeded
David Wagner, and wild card entry
Sam Schröder
Sam Schröder (born 25 September 1999) is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player.
Schröder has a career high Quad Wheelchair singles ranking of 1, achieved on 14 February 2022. He also has a career high Quad Wheelchair doubles ranking of 1, achieve ...
. In round robin play, Alcott topped the standings by winning all three of his matches, beating Lapthorne and Schröder in two sets and Wagner in three. Schröder's rather dominant two-set upset of Lapthorne gave him second place and the other berth in the final; Lapthorne finished the round robin with one win and Wagner finished with none.
The final was contested by top-seeded Alcott and Schröder. The first set was evenly played by both competitors, but was won by Schröder in a tiebreak. Alcott recovered with a second-set
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to force the game into a third set, which was won by Schröder in upset fashion, 6–4, for his first US Open title. Schröder's win was especially unlikely considering that Alcott was seeking his eleventh Grand Slam title while Schröder was appearing in a Grand Slam event for the first time.
Wheelchair men's doubles
*
Alfie Hewett
Alfie Hewett (born 6 December 1997) is a British wheelchair tennis player. He is the current world No. 1 in doubles, and a former world No. 1 in singles.
Hewett is a 21-time major
Major ( commandant in certain jurisdictions) is a mili ...
/
Gordon Reid def.
Stéphane Houdet
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/
Nicolas Peifer
Nicolas Peifer (born 13 October 1990, in Strasbourg) is a French wheelchair tennis player. In doubles, Peifer has completed the career Super Slam, having won all four majors, a Paralympic gold medal in 2016, and the Wheelchair Tennis Masters o ...
, 6–4, 6–1
The wheelchair men's doubles tournament was contested by the same eight players who contested the
singles
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event. The top seed was given to the pair of
Alfie Hewett
Alfie Hewett (born 6 December 1997) is a British wheelchair tennis player. He is the current world No. 1 in doubles, and a former world No. 1 in singles.
Hewett is a 21-time major
Major ( commandant in certain jurisdictions) is a mili ...
and
Gordon Reid, with the second seed given to
Stéphane Houdet
Stéphane Houdet (born 20 November 1970) is a French wheelchair tennis player. Houdet is a former singles world number one, and the current doubles world number one. In 2014, he became the first man in history to complete the calendar-year Gran ...
and
Nicolas Peifer
Nicolas Peifer (born 13 October 1990, in Strasbourg) is a French wheelchair tennis player. In doubles, Peifer has completed the career Super Slam, having won all four majors, a Paralympic gold medal in 2016, and the Wheelchair Tennis Masters o ...
. Hewett and Reid faced
Gustavo Fernández and
Shingo Kunieda
is a Japanese wheelchair tennis player. He is the current world No. 1 in singles. With four Paralympic gold medals, 28 major singles titles – an all-time record in singles of any tennis discipline – and 50 major titles overall, Kunieda i ...
in the tournament's opening semifinal round, defeating them in two sets, while Houdet and Peifer took down Casey Ratzlaff and
Joachim Gérard
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Gérard has won two Grand Slam singles titles (2021 Australian Open, 2021 Wimbledon Championships) and four doubles title ...
, also in two. This set up a final between the two top seeds, which was won in two sets by the top-ranked duo of Hewett and Reid.
Wheelchair women's doubles
*
Yui Kamiji /
Jordanne Whiley def.
Marjolein Buis /
Diede de Groot, 6–3, 6–3
As with the men's tournament, the wheelchair women's doubles event was contested by the same group of eight players that played in the
singles
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event. The semifinal round proved not to be a challenge for either of the two seeded pairs, as the 1-seed duo of
Marjolein Buis and
Diede de Groot defeated Angélica Bernal and Dana Mathewson and the 2-seed pair of
Yui Kamiji and
Jordanne Whiley defeated
Momoko Ohtani
is a Japanese wheelchair tennis player. Ohtani has been active in international competitions since 2016.
Medical history
Ohtani was born healthy. She has been playing tennis since the third grade of primary school. After completing secondary ...
and
Lucy Shuker
Lucy Shuker (born 28 May 1980) is a British wheelchair tennis player who is currently the highest ranked woman in the sport in Britain. A previous singles & doubles National Champion, Lucy has represented Great Britain at three successive Paral ...
, both in straight sets. In the final, Kamiji and Whiley were able to outlast Buis and de Groot, winning both sets by a score of 6–3, and earning their eleventh Grand Slam title together.
Wheelchair quad doubles
*
Dylan Alcott
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/
Andy Lapthorne def.
Sam Schröder
Sam Schröder (born 25 September 1999) is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player.
Schröder has a career high Quad Wheelchair singles ranking of 1, achieved on 14 February 2022. He also has a career high Quad Wheelchair doubles ranking of 1, achieve ...
/
David Wagner, 3–6, 6–4,
0–8The wheelchair quad doubles event was the smallest at the tournament, with only four players (the same four that contested the
singles
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* ''Singles'' (1992 film), written and directed by Cameron Crowe
* ''Singles'' ...
event) competing. As a result, there was only one match played to determine the champion. In the first set, underdogs
Sam Schröder
Sam Schröder (born 25 September 1999) is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player.
Schröder has a career high Quad Wheelchair singles ranking of 1, achieved on 14 February 2022. He also has a career high Quad Wheelchair doubles ranking of 1, achieve ...
and
David Wagner jumped out to an early lead by winning the first set 6–3, but
Dylan Alcott
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and
Andy Lapthorne battled back to force a third with a 6–4 second-set victory. The third set was played as a match tiebreak, which was won 10–8 by Alcott and Lapthorne to secure them the wheelchair quad doubles title.
Point distribution and prize money
Point distribution
As a Grand Slam tournament, the points for the US Open are the highest of all ATP and WTA tournaments.
These points determine the world ATP and WTA rankings for men's and women's competition, respectively. Due to the smaller draws and the pandemic, all men's and women's doubles players that made it past the first round received half the points of their singles counterparts, a change from previous years where singles and doubles players received the same number of points in all but the first two rounds. In both singles and doubles, women received slightly higher point totals compared to their male counterparts at each round of the tournament, except for the first and last.
Points and rankings for the wheelchair events fall under the jurisdiction of the
ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour, which also places Grand Slams as the highest classification.
The ATP and WTA rankings were both altered in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Both rankings were frozen on March 16, 2020, upon the suspension of both tours, and as a result the traditional 52-week ranking system was extended to cover the period from March 2019 to December 2020, with a player's best 18 results in that time period factoring into their point totals. Points earned from the US Open and other 2020 Tour-level tournaments will be dropped from their point totals after 52 weeks or until that respective tournament is played in 2021. Like other tournaments, each player could only count their best result from either the 2019 or 2020 US Open towards their ranking.
Below is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points on offer for each event:
Prize money
Several days before the tournament began, the prize money pool was announced to be US$53.4 million, a reduction of 6.7% compared to
last year's tournament.
The prize money for men's and women's singles winners took a large reduction, down 22% to $3 million this year.
Prize money at each tier but one of the singles competition saw a reduction in 2020: the winnings for players exiting in the first round rose by 5% but saw no change in second- or third-round exits and saw a decrease in each level past that.
Prize money for the men's and women's doubles competitions took big hits as well, as both winning pairs took home 46% less than last year.
The total prize pool for the wheelchair competitions was $350,000.
In addition to winnings for players, a portion of the prize pool also was given to a relief program funded by the four Grand Slam tournaments, as well as the ITP, ATP Tour, and WTA Tour. A portion of the pool was also designated as being to "make up for" the cancellation of qualification tournaments and the reduced size of the competition.
Broadcasting and viewership
In the United States,
ESPN
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held exclusive rights to the tournament for the sixth year in a row as part of an 11-year, $825 million contract. Tournament matches were viewable on ESPN as well as on
ESPN2
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ESPN2 was initially fo ...
and online streaming services
ESPN3
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and
ESPN+
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. ESPN also held rights to the
US Open Series, with the
Tennis Channel
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airing overnight replays of the world feed. Prior to the broadcast of the women's singles final,
Mariah Carey
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premiered the video for her song "
Save The Day",
which was filmed in front of
Arthur Ashe Stadium
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on the grounds of the
Billie Jean King National Tennis Center and which features clips of past US Open champions
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and
Serena Williams
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,
Sloane Stephens
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, and
Naomi Osaka
is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and is the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles. Osaka is a four-time Grand Slam singles champ ...
.
In the United Kingdom and the
Republic of Ireland
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,
Amazon Prime Video
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held exclusive rights to the tournament.
Viewership as a whole saw a decline from previous years, drawing only 700,000 viewers due to player opt-outs and competition from other broadcasts on television.
Overall ratings suffered a 45% decline; viewership of the men's final dropped 48% while the women's final dropped 43%.
The men's final saw the lowest viewership since the tournament was picked up by ESPN, as the match competed with
Tom Brady
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's debut appearance for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the National Football League (NFL),
though the women's final charted as the third-highest in the ESPN era, behind the previous two years.
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2020 US Open (tennis),
US Open (tennis) by year, 2020